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Last few days have been spent pulling metal tubes and sorta cleaning some stuff up....messing other stuff up....(tried to put in new rear deck shocks....and decklid hinge mount took a dump on me....already been fixed once.....lost some paint....)

But, some good too!

Had the radiator checked for leaks and the metal surrounds re-attached. Unit is a Hall "45 degree" unit. It also had unique front stainless tubes installed so that you need NO rubber 90's!!!

I suspected there were some tubes leaking but the core that I could see via the inlet/outlet ports looked good, very few big chunks of garp!

But, radiator guy sez that the tubes were good, but he increased my flow by about 30% by cleaning out the tubes!!! Apparently there wasn't large stuff...but there was small stuff circulating about...!!!

When I pulled the temp sensor switches off of the unit, one of the fiber gaskets tore....so spent some time cruising the internet today to find some 2mm thick copper versions. Had to buy 25 from Grainger....but was still cheaper than buying 3 off of eBay! IN case anyone needs a couple....!!!

Also ordered a 5/8" in-line filter from Northern Supply to try out. Not sure how it will do....more on that later....

Picked up 10' of 5/8" heater hose from the local AP store

Ordered a 3' length of Gates Green Stripe in 1-3/8" ID off of eBay to make tube connectors.

Found a few more nice metric hose clamps in the stuff from the previous owner AND, some 1-1/2" super duper hose for the connection from the under car tube to the water pump inlet.

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